Ada Auerbach

Ada Rivka Auerbach (エイダ・リヴカ・アウアーバッハ Eida Rivuka Auābahha; born 23 October 1906; 23 October 1906) is a German-Norwegian-British diarist of Jewish origin. Her distant maternal uncle, Heinrich Hoffmann, considered Ada and her family to be a danger to Nazi Germany; even attempting to have the whole family assassinated by the Gestapo on 26 April, 1933, when they returned to Germany to tour Berlin before they returned to Germany. Ada was the subject of much speculation in Russia as her formerly high-ranking position in the Russian Imperial Army made her a target of the Nazi, this also placed a target on her family; having retired before the outbreak of the Second World War. She would become a photographer towards the beginning of WW2, and she took almost all of the surviving color photographs and films of her murdered family members, including her late daughter (Sonya Auerbach). Very much of her relatives survived the war unscathed with a large majority of them contracting PTSD, it became so severe that they were sent to mental hospitals in Russia; their return was marked by a period of religious intolerance and the rise of the Soviet Union. The second child of her parents, Vuk and Lisanna Auerbach, Ethnic Germans who were born Russian nationals; she was the second-eldest of her siblings, being extremely strict and firm about diplomacy and was the certified "genius" in the Auerbach Household. She was present as a witness along with the rest of the Auerbach Family, their servants, and associates; their various testimonies provided an even darker view of the Nazi regime. After the war, Ada would go on to become an ace attorney, said to be one of the best; her remaining daughters became powerful leaders in the global community.